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In Workbench 1.3, the device was named "RAM:" (EDIT: I'm wrong). Not sure if that changed in later versions of the OS, but 1.3 was as far as I got with the 1000
by function_seven 7y ago
In Workbench 1.3, the device was named "RAM:" (EDIT: I'm wrong). Not sure if that changed in later versions of the OS, but 1.3 was as far as I got with the 1000. And yeah, I guess I didn't "create" it so much as "use it as the boot disk".
It was gone on power-cycle, but it persisted through so-called warm reboots. (CTRL+𝔸+𝗔, I think?)
- snvzz 7y agoDefinitely "RAD:", not "RAM:". RAM is a filesystem and not reboot persistent. RAD is a block device and reboot persistent. Article on RAD usage: http://www.amigareport.com/ar139/p1-6.html http://www.amigareport.com/ar139/p1-6.html Annotated disassembly: http://wandel.ca/homepage/execdis/ramdrive_disassembly.txt http://wandel.ca/homepage/execdis/ramdrive_disassembly.txt It's fresh to me, because I still use my Amiga computers.
- function_seven 7y agoThanks. Your first link dislodged some cobwebs. I'm definitely confused after all these years. Yeah, it must have been the RAD: device that I copied my WB1.3 disk to.
- snvzz 7y agoAs an added note, ramdrive.device would use chip ram, which is not very clever as CHIP RAM is limited and precious, besides slow from a CPU perspective. There's third party RAD implementations that use FAST RAM instead.